Libby Heaney, Quantum Climates, 2025, HD video with stereo sound, 1min24

Dr Libby Heaney is an award-winning artist with a PhD in theoretical quantum physics. She is the first artist to work with quantum computing, beginning in 2019.

Heaney writes her own code for IBM’s publicly available quantum computers. She has developed an entirely new layered and blurry aesthetic from uniquely quantum phenomena, highlighting the invisible processes within quantum technologies, inviting audiences to see the world as plural and entangled.

In Quantum Climates (2025) Heaney has employed her bespoke generative quantum video editing technique using one of IBM’s 5 qubit (quantum bit) machines. She uses the multiple, wavelike patterns of quantum entanglement to layer together 32 different videos all playing at once, highlighting the plural patterns of quantum superposition and inviting viewers to see multiple unstable perspectives at once.